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Flyover Fictions

Flyover Fictions critically engages the history and contemporary use of the "flyover country" trope in American culture and repurposes the concept as an abstract tool for cultural studies.

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Heather Renee Sottong
Transnational Dante

Opens the field of Dante Studies to further transnational studies of the Divine Comedy 'scirculation, translation, and global influenceThis fascinating book examines how Dante was repurposed by Argentine …

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James Scarth Gale,
Life of the Buddha

Composed in vernacular Korean by Powŏl, P'alsangnok , or Record of the Eight Marks , is an influential pre-modern fictional biography of the Buddha that chronicles the life of Śākyamuni through eight tran…

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Elaine Coburn
The Emma Larocque Reader

Emma LaRocque was born in 1949 in Lac La Biche into a Cree-speaking Métis family. She grew up in a one-room, kerosene-lit log cabin built by her father. At the age of nine, she fought her parents to atten…

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Rebecca Carroll
I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like

Thirty years after its original publication, this newly imagined edition brings the work and musings of fifteen Black literary luminaries in conversation with a new generation of writers and readers. The …

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Rebecca Carroll
I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like

Thirty years after its original publication, this newly imagined edition brings the work and musings of fifteen Black literary luminaries in conversation with a new generation of writers and readers. The …

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Joshua Javier Guzmán
Dissatisfactions

How the queer Chicano punks of post-1960s Los Angeles developed a unique politics of style In this groundbreaking work, Joshua Javier Guzmán explores the queer punk and Chicano/Latino avant-garde art scen…

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Lee Mcgowan, Kasey Symons, Paddy Hoey, Elizabeth Ellison
Contemporary Literary Sports Journalism

Palgrave Studies in Literary Journalism

This book offers new perspectives on the practices and production of contemporary literary sports journalism, considering the form within theoretical frameworks related to critical studies in sports media…

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Cather Studies,
Cather Studies, Volume 14

The essays offer compelling ways of seeing and situating Willa Cather's texts---both unsettling and advancing Cather scholarship. Cather was born and spent her first nine years in the Shenandoah Valley of…

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Ping Wang
The Poetic Way of XIE Lingyun

The father of Chinese landscape poetry in time and placeDuring the dark centuries between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the golden age of reunified China under the Tang and Song dynasties (618…

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Priscilla Layne, Michelle Stott James, Lisabeth Hock
Afrika and Alemania

This book examines how German-speaking women of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds represent Africa and Blackness, foregrounding the challenges Black women face in defining and portraying Blackness, Af…

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Xuenan Cao
Chinese Media Improvisations

Xuenan Cao offers an unexpected angle on China's technological rise, spotlighting the role of deficit-driven improvisation. As Cao demonstrates, where printing paper, computers, and microchips have been i…

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Xuenan Cao
Chinese Media Improvisations

Xuenan Cao offers an unexpected angle on China's technological rise, spotlighting the role of deficit-driven improvisation. As Cao demonstrates, where printing paper, computers, and microchips have been i…

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Andrew H Plaks
The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

A reinterpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynastyIn this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the "Four Masterworks of t…

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Andrew H Plaks
The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

A reinterpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynastyIn this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the "Four Masterworks of t…

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Monika Radojevic
A Beautiful Lack of Consequence

'Tender, humorous and moving' COSMOPOLITAN'Visceral, wild, and so beautifully necessary.' SALMA EL-WARDANY, author of THESE IMPOSSIBLE THINGS'Radojevic's stories and fragments are so sharp-edged they coul…

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Benjamin Mangrum
The Comedy of Computation

"In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From…

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Lorenzo Casini
Occidentalism and the Egyptian Novel

This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of 'the West', in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists . Beginning with the writings of Muh…

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Borrowed Time: Lennons Last Decade (2024) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)

A visionary documentary, packed with never-before-seen archive footage, interviews, and exclusive new stories, exploring the final decade of John Lennon's life in extraordinary detail. Follow the legend a…

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Benjamin Mangrum
The Comedy of Computation

"In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From…

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